November 2008

Jamie Watton will be taking up the role of Chief Executive/Artistic Director at South East Dance in January 2009. He said_:_ “I am delighted to be joining South East Dance. The South East attracts, and is … Continue Reading

The Wayside, choreographed and performed by Laila Diallo, opens with the dancer appearing lost and forlorn, her petite frame somewhat emphasised by the dimness and emptiness of the surrounding space. Wearing a b… Continue Reading

‘Few choreographers can energise a big ensemble the way that the 58-year-old American does, and there are few things to beat the thrill of his climactic tribe of English schoolgirls (40 men and women all dressed alike) letting rip in an aerobic knees-up, Forsyth…

A Czar (or Tsar) is either the Emperor of Russia or ‘a person with great authority’. Whilst the former is extinct, the latter seem to grow inexorably. We have Transport Czars, a Drugs Czar and even a… Continue Reading

‘ this company has a soul. It is heard in the musicians’ passion and the singer’s soul-stirring wail, seen in the dancers’ energy and fervour and felt in the vision and inspiration of two men, Rojas and Rodriguez, and their desire to bring togethe…

‘BRB’s accounts of Fokine were honourable. In reviving Petrushka, John Auld has inspired his cast to emulate the vodka-fuelled revellers who crowd the square in front of St Petersburg’s Admiralty building, and I liked Alexander Campbell’s pathos a…